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            [ ♥ ] KT ENT @ktent • Aug 1

            #HappyMINJIDay 🎂🎉

ECLIPSE INTRODUCTION VIDEO

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Pacing around the kitchen of the dorm, Haseul adjusted her glasses as she got a drink of water from the fridge.  The time was getting late and Ariel still wasn’t home yet. She knew the other was putting a lot of effort into her acting roles, but it seemed like the days were really long, especially with them having to do their comeback appearences and everything.  She knew the older was working hard, so she wanted to make sure she was coming home to a nice evening.

That being said, she knew there was likely something, or someone, on her best friend’s mind the past week as well.  She was the only one that knew fully about who it was that Ariel had a thing for, as far as she knew, anyway, so she wanted to make sure the other was okay.

☇    our royal prince … is joohyun a princess?  deleted ☇    since you’re already popular among eclipse members, it makes sense tha  deleted ☇    were you really lookin  deleted  ☇     i should’ve known bett  deleted  ☇   ㅋㅋ our joohyun is really pretty, isn’t she?    

[►] You can’t write a song with that sad face My body moves are like a marionette's I cut off the strings tied on my arms...

the initial shyness and awkwardness he had felt towards the sunbae had completely vanished by now. they had worked together for quite some time now, had worked on both her and his songs and gray had gotten used to her presence. the more time they spend together, even if it was just work-related, the more comfortable he felt around her. it was easy to talk to her, she was smart and knew how to chose the right words to kick his ass, whenever he got insecure about things again. gray was somewhat of a self-destructive person, usually disregarding his own needs and wishes and always prioritising others before himself. but being around ariel had turned a switch in him (maybe also because she had told him how he should take better care of himself as well), and he got more selfish in his requests, coming to the kt building to look for her more frequently to ask her for advice or her opinion on songs.

this time around he had caught her in the halls of the company building, requesting her voice for a new song of his, once again. it slowly became a repetitive pattern, or maybe he was just a little addicted to the little moments they could share under the disguise of a considerate and friendly manner among colleagues. he liked to spend the few minutes she could listen to him with her, they had established a good and stable relationship and even if he was crushing on her, he was ok with staying like this. this was enough for now.

after handing her a sheet of lyrics from said song, gray had went out to get her a drink from a vending maschine. considering the time and a potential diet plan for the idol, he bought her a healthy juice and returned to the quiet corner they had settled down for a moment. silently, he setted the drink in front of her and took a seat in front of her, mustering her facial expressions as she went through the lines. "what do you think, sunbae? do you like the lyrics?" liking as in willing to lend him her voice for this one as well.

ahyoung finds herself so thankful for promotions whenever they come around, because she’s in mighty need of a distraction.

and what a great distraction it is. it seems like kt wanted to start the year off with a bang, packing their schedules with ads, recordings, and radio shows  —  this is the kind of promotion she expects from a company like kt. it’s just enough to keep her moving, just enough to keep her looming thoughts at bay. she also thinks that the acting classes they had around the chase me era along with the dream high recordings helps her as well  —  because she finds it easier to smile in front of the camera while singing, to grin and play along with the other girls during her downtime although her mind is somewhere else completely  —  with someone else completely, wanting to be with him instead of singing lyrics that painfully remind her of her boyfriend, of their relationship.

and although it is easier to hide her feelings than it would of been in the past, it’s not natural for someone like ahyoung, who has always been an open book. she feels a pressure in her chest that’s starting to build and she knows that she can’t just keep everything to herself, needs to speak about it to someone  —  but it’s hard. it would be the easiest to speak about to ariel since she already knows about jinki and ahyoung knows about her crush ( although she doesn’t know who it is specifically, but she’s sure they’ll get to that point one day ), but with the other being so busy with her drama and coming home even later than they are, she doesn’t want to bother her, doesn’t want to put too much on her plate.

but she’s lonely without her roommate to talk to. and as time goes on, it feels harder to keep pretending that everything is okay  —  she feels like she’s going to burst anytime soon.

so ahyoung forces herself to not instantly fall asleep after a night of promos, instead waiting for their leader on her own bed while playing mindless games on her phone. it works well for a distraction, finding herself so deep into the game that when ariel cracks the door open it causes her to jump at her presence, phone falling flat upon her face with such grace and class. laughing at her own self as she sits up straight, the woman gives a salute to the other in a form of a greeting, rubbing her face with a free hand as she states, “you didn’t just see that. you’re dreaming, sleepwalking!” with a grin, though it fades away rather quickly as she thinks about what she’s going to say next.

“yo but uh ... can i ... talk to you about something? it’s been weighing on me lately and i don’t know if i can just keep it in like that for too long, y’know?”

@rkariel

there are few things in the world that say congratulations more than cake. unfortunately, joohyun currently does not have the luxury of going out and buying one when the comeback is looming overhead and she’s still unable to go anywhere without the manager tagging along. the best that she can do at the moment is a few choice snacks from the vending machines at the kt building---only the best!---and a canned coffee she procured from a fellow trainee, trading it for cold hard cash. it’s a bit disheartening, and, quite frankly, embarrassing, but she simply can’t let a cause for celebration go by without actually celebrating it.

it’s become routine by now, for ariel to scour the kt building looking for her members, making sure all her members have gone home, and more often than not, joohyun is still there, requiring coercing and force to head back to the dorms well after the midnight hour has come and gone. it’s the same again this time, and once they return back to the dorms together, she heads straight for the kitchen to assemble a plate of chips and cookies and a pack of gum, and, along with the can of coffee, sets it down on the kitchen table.

it’s been ages since she’s seen ariel. ( not really, she just saw her a few weeks ago at one of the award shows but that was work and this was so clearly a different type of gathering )  unlike those events, where professionalism was at the utmost priority among her and the other idol attendees, mijoo had to forgo pleasantries and stick with soft hugs and cute waves from a distance. but as christmas nears, and mijoo’s luck has thoroughly run out for the year for her to have to work through both christmas eve and day, she’s more than relieved to find a few days of down-time ( two days, specifically, two days of down-time ) to squeeze in the few christmas festivities she was invited ( and more pointedly, allotted in her small frame of time during this busy season ) to ; more than gleefully gathering the gifts she had ordered ahead of time ( having already felt it in her grainy body of bones that she wouldn’t be able to give them out in person ) and stacking them into the car before she and mason make their way to ariel’s sister’s home.

she’s only officially met the older girl a handful of times, but the fact that she was invited to something so intimate and festive as christmas at the other’s home was something that warmed mijoo’s heart. as for mijoo, her own home extremely lacked the christmas spirit due to the busyness of their schedule. it was quite unfortunate that they weren’t able to decorate  --  something, in the past, mijoo would have done the moment the clock stroke midnight on december 1st.